In this wide-ranging, thought-provoking and sometimes provocative
new book, leading sculptor Antony Gormley, informed and energised
by a lifetime of making, and art critic and historian Martin
Gayford, explore sculpture as a transnational art form with its own
compelling history. The authors' lively conversations and
explorations make unexpected connections across time and media.
Sculpture has been practised by every culture throughout the world
and stretches back into our distant past. The first surviving
shaped stones may even predate the advent of language. Evidently,
the desire to carve, mould, bend, chip away, weld, suspend, balance
- to transform a vast array of materials and light into new shapes
and forms - runs deep in our psyche and is a fundamental part of
our human journey and need for expression. With more than 300
spectacular illustrations, Shaping the World juxtaposes a rich
variety of works - from the famous Lowenmensch or Lion Man, c.
35,000 BCE to Michelangelo's luminous Pieta in Rome, the Terracotta
Warriors in China to Rodin's The Kiss, Marcel Duchamp's
ready-mades, Olafur Eliasson's extraordinary Weather Project and
Kara Walker's Fons Americanus, and Tomas Saraceno's ongoing
Aerocene project, as well as examples of Gormley's own work. Antony
Gormley and Martin Gayford take into account materials and
techniques, and consider overarching themes such as light,
mortality and our changing world. Above all, they discuss their
view of sculpture as a form of physical thinking capable of
altering the way people feel, and they invite us to look at
sculpture we encounter - and more broadly the world around us - in
a completely different way.
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